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Atkins was all the rage in the late 1970s; Ornish in the late 1980s; Atkins again in the late 1990s; and now there is free-for-all, with Paleo, Raw, Vegan and Gluten Free all vying for media time, most-favored-diet-status and celebrity spokespersons. Diets come and go in waves. I love analyzing [...]
The first big JAMA study of the new year (Happy New Year!) implied that you can be overweight or barely obese, and not die early because of it. In between the lines: yes….in that population. Why? Because they get medical care right away!. Because they get sicker sooner! Because [...]
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Amid the hub-bub of the week, with the Supreme Court affirmed Affordable Care Act health care law upheld, and with one JAMA study showing that 21 people on 3 different diets for 4 weeks each burn calories differently (no real surprise here: the lowest carb diet had the highest energy burn, [...]
JAMA has a section called “100 years ago” in which the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) quotes a column from its archives, verbatim. Last week, it was January 13, 1912 WATER-DRINKING WITH MEALS “…While the ingestion of moderate quantities of water with [...]
Soup is good food. It’s especially good for weight loss. Bob Barnett and Barbara Rolls based the best-selling Volumetrics around the idea that dishes low in calories (i.e., lots of water) and slow-to-eat (i.e., soup!) were the best for losing weight. There’s something to that. [...]
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